Best looking racing game?

Gamer_T · 22 May 2010 at 11:46

Graphics might be good on NFSS, but the game play is shoddy. I don't know how anyone can say Dirt 2 has horrible graphics. The graphics are awesome and it's one of the best racing games I've played.

Jericho.u.k · 22 May 2010 at 14:18

As i said earlier in the thread i have indeed played nfs:shift for quite a few hours.
The graphics were great but as earlier said not what i consider the best, but i have to say that i personally found nfs:shift really boring, i cant really explain why but it was just missing something for me.
It`s probably due to the fact that generally i tend to prefer arcade stlye racing games over simulation type racing games.

picnic · 22 May 2010 at 16:28

I might agree the visual effects are better in some of these console ported games but I'll take iR/GTR2 any day for their better overal driving experience.

alex24 · 22 May 2010 at 16:33

malc30 said:
Those screenys look great, How do the cars handle ?

Badly, like they're on a pivot in my experience. As soon as I steer it's all massive oversteer and drifting through every corner. Despite fiddling with the settings I can't seem to improve it, which is a shame. DiRT 2 is so much more enjoyable.

4T5 · 22 May 2010 at 16:37

I play Dirt 2 on the 360 using my wheel & i think it's Awesome & i have a Momo for my PC. Dirt 2 has given me the best feedback so far.

LeJosh · 22 May 2010 at 17:44

alexhull24 said:
Badly, like they're on a pivot in my experience. As soon as I steer it's all massive oversteer and drifting through every corner. Despite fiddling with the settings I can't seem to improve it, which is a shame. DiRT 2 is so much more enjoyable.

What car were you using? Some cars are harder to handle but you just got to be able to tame them. If you can in to a corner too fast your going to spin off anyway.

I think NFS is the best looking just now.

Semiskimmed · 22 May 2010 at 17:53

those NFS shots look amazing. that games totally gone under my radar!

Devrij · 22 May 2010 at 17:58

These certainly don't do it justice, but you can hardly say Dirt2 is ugly. The cars look great close up as well, not to mention the various in car effects (eg water on windscreen). Driving experience is better than Shift any day. Keep in mind these screenshots are at max settings, but no AA/AF

alex24 · 22 May 2010 at 19:11

LeJosh said:
What car were you using? Some cars are harder to handle but you just got to be able to tame them. If you can in to a corner too fast your going to spin off anyway.

I think NFS is the best looking just now.

Any car, it basically feels like none of them have any downforce, but they're skating instead, even when I'm going slowly. I'm going to try with a wheel instead, I have a DFGT and I think that may make it easier than the 360 pad. The problem I have with the game is that it's not a good sim, nor is it a good arcade racer. It sits in between doing nothing very well and making a frustrating experience. Just my thoughts, though it does look great bar the irritating motion blur. Oh, and the shaking around in the cockpit is way too excessive, in real life your brain accounts for it, but on the game it's just plain annoying, I have to use bumper cam.

LeJosh · 22 May 2010 at 19:16

You can turn motion blur off. From my experience if I force the wheel to hard into a corner it just spins off, has to be a smooth motion. So using a 360 stick will be difficult, ease into it I suppose. I use a Works Murcielago and it's brilliant. 7 and a half minutes around nordschlieffe, however you spell it.

RavenXXX2 · 22 May 2010 at 23:52

Split second velocity, best GFX EVER!

dirtydog · 25 May 2010 at 09:35

^ looks good but locked to 30fps??

iv-tecman · 25 May 2010 at 10:23

dirtydog said:
^ looks good but locked to 30fps??

Why is it so bad to have a racing game locked to 30fps?

As for good looking racing games..... Dirt and Dirt 2 are very good looking games, as well as NFS Shift and Grid, but then I used to think Microprose GP2 was fantastic looking back in the day..

As we progress gaphics for racing games get better and better... The screenhots of F1 2010 are looking amazing..

dirtydog · 25 May 2010 at 10:30

iv-tecman said:
Why is it so bad to have a racing game locked to 30fps?

30fps is less smooth, responsive and fluid than a higher framerate is. It might be acceptable on a console but never on a PC where even if current hardware cannot produce over 30fps, future hardware will.

At the very least they should provide an option to unlock the framerate, like games such as Resident Evil 5 where you can choose between 30/60/no limit.

skullman · 25 May 2010 at 10:47

There's barely any difference in response time, if any at all. 30fps is perfectly smooth enough, plus today's racing games produce faster physics engines/less controller lag etc. As long as the framerate is consistent (anything above 30fps imo) then your golden....especially if its just an arcade racer :|

dirtydog · 25 May 2010 at 11:37

'Wes · 25 May 2010 at 11:44

Looks good Raven, might buy it.

Steveo1982 · 25 May 2010 at 12:06

The game is fantastic but ive been playing demo of it on the 360.

Ive heard of some serious performance issues with the game on high end hardware so will wait till they patch it before trying it on my pc.